Kraken holds the title of world’s fastest academic supercomputer. According to new rankings released today, the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers places the University of Tennessee's Kraken in third place.

The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville announced that they are making available two million additional hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

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NICS has taken delivery of a new Cray XT5. The new machine, which replaces the Cray XT4, will be called by the same name, 'Kraken'. The new Kraken XT5 will be available starting Monday February 2. Over the next two months, until March 30, both machines will be available to facilitate the transition from the XT4 to the XT5.